January 2012
1 post
Watch(via Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0 | Video on TED.com)
July 2011
3 posts
“If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren’t well enough to...”
– British explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs, quoted in the Toronto Globe and Mail, as published in This Week magazine, July 22, 2011
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
– Benjamin Franklin, quoted in the Nashville Tennessean, as published in This Week magazine, July 22, 2011
“All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on...”
– Cyril Connolly, quoted in Refdesk.com, as published in This Week magazine, July 22, 2011
February 2011
6 posts
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you...”
– Charles Bukowski, US (German-born) author & poet (1920 - 1994)
“The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we...”
– David Brinkley, US television newscaster (1920 - 2003)
WatchJames Geary, metaphorically speaking | Video on TED.com
WatchHow to Make Origami Puffy Stars
January 2011
2 posts
“Tuesday 9:00AM
by Denver Butson
A man standing at the bus stop
reading the...”
– Tuesday 9:00AM by Denver Butson | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor
WatchVote Summer - The Daily Beast
December 2010
2 posts
“Why is it as mothers that we are set up in life to be compared to Angelina...”
– Iggy’s World – Billy Mays Tried to Help – RIP
October 2010
9 posts
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
– Dialogues and Letters by Seneca, translated by C. D. N. Costa
WatchInfographic of the Day: So What If You Leave Your Computer On All Night? | Co.Design
“Just as refinements in mirror crafting led to an increase in self portrait...”
– A Graphic Guide to Facebook Portraits | Fast Company
Song: I Don't Care
They say I’m crazy Got no sense But I don’t care They may or may not mean offense But I don’t care You see, I’m sort of independent I am my own superintendent And my star is on the ascendent That’s why I don’t care I don’t care, I don’t care What they may think of me I’m happy-go-lucky, they say that I’m plucky Content and carefree I...
“I am not bossy, I just have better ideas!”
– seen on a pillow
“A: Knock-knock.
B: Who’s there?
A: To.
B: To who?
A: To whom.
(At...”
– via Reddit
September 2010
7 posts
“She was like a prototype for a civilized person that never went into production.”
– Peter Schjeldahl, speaking of Veronica Geng, in the New York Magazine piece “Humor Came Her“ by Jennifer Senior, published May 17, 1999
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and...”
– Dale Carnegie
“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others, You won’t have time to make...”
– Alfred Sheinwok, as quoted in Real Simple
“If obstacles are getting in your way, you’re not seeing your goal clearly...”
– Author Unknown (Twittered by Coach DQ)
“Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.”
– Ira Gassen
August 2010
15 posts
The World Is Running Out of Helium
Birthday parties will never be the same: Scientists say the world could run out of helium in 25 to 30 years, especially because a U.S. law stipulates that the country’s National Helium Reserve—by far the largest in the world—must be sold off by 2015, regardless of the market price. That same law has made helium artificially cheap, to the point where one scientist estimates that a party balloon...
“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.”
– Julia Child
“In whatever kind of a ‘race’ life may be, I have very abruptly...”
– Christopher Hitchens, August 2010
“Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by...”
– Nicholas Sparks
“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a...”
– Dorothy Parker
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers...”
– Woody Allen
“People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife....”
– Erma Bombeck
“Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting...”
– Zsa Zsa Gabor
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right –- for you’ll be criticized...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when. You can decide how...”
– Joan Baez
“Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”
– George Eliot
What's Your Guiltiest Pleasure?
Salt. I have a savory tooth. Most women I know tend to go through a half gallon of ice cream or some other sweet treat during breakups or on bad days; I go through a half pound of smoked brisket.
—Kelly Treleaven Austin, Texas
“A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still...”
– Cher
July 2010
9 posts
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“If you’re not early, you’re late.”
– How Do You Get Out of the Door on Time? | Real Simple
What Makes Me Feel Beautiful | Real Simple →
Hearing, “You make me happy,” is all it takes.
The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com →
WatchHWY 9: A Story About Love (a proposal, really) by Manny Marquez.
See Peter the jeweler and his beautiful, delicate work at his Etsy shop “Jeweler on the Roof”.